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James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$225k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$85,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$4.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$225k0%
FY202415$190k7%
FY202315$122k27%
FY202212$72k8%
FY202117$168k47%
FY202021$167k38%
FY201920$145k50%
FY201817$125kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$407kReligion$191kArts & Culture$175kHealth$141kYouth Development$124kHuman Services$110kRecreation & Sports$32kEnvironment$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cole Valley Christian Schools Inc$204,00051%
Concordia University Irvine$157,82080%
Choc Foundation$70,00070%
Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos$55,00080%
Olive Crest$52,50050%
Runway for Recovery Inc$45,00041%
Soaring Spirits International$30,00032%
St Pauls Lutheran Church$30,0003n/a
Yorba Linda Friends Church$25,0003n/a
StandUp for Kids$17,50050%
Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cole Valley Christian Schools Inc$204,00051%
Concordia University Irvine$157,82080%
Choc Foundation$70,00070%
Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos$55,00080%
Olive Crest$52,50050%
Runway for Recovery Inc$45,00041%
Soaring Spirits International$30,00032%
St Pauls Lutheran Church$30,0003n/a
Yorba Linda Friends Church$25,0003n/a
StandUp for Kids$17,50050%
Assistance League of North Coast$17,00061%
Lutheran High School$15,0002n/a
Girl Scouts of Orange County$12,00030%
The American Radio Relay League Inc$10,00050%
Our Rescue$10,00010%
The Carolyn E Wylie Center for Children Youth & Families$10,00020%
Fore Batten Foundation$5,00011%
Mammoth Lakes Lutheran Church$5,0001n/a
Calvary Chapel Chino Hills$5,0001n/a
Influence Church$5,0001n/a
Kherut$5,00012%
Turning Point USA Inc$5,00010%
Community Bible Study$3,00030%
Womans Club of Carlsbad$3,00014%
Sage Creek Foundation$2,50012%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,00010%
Onelegacy Foundation$2,00020%
Heritage Palms Veterans Association Incorporated$1,00012%
Glenmore Preservation Society Inc$1,0001n/a
California-Hawaii Elks Major Project Inc$70010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($408k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCole Valley Christian Schools Inc: $204,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetConcordia University Irvine: $157,820 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChoc Foundation: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of San Marcos: $55,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOlive Crest: $52,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRunway for Recovery Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSoaring Spirits International: $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $17,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAssistance League of North Coast: $17,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Orange County: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Radio Relay League Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOur Rescue: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carolyn E Wylie Center for Children Youth & Families: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFore Batten Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKherut: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWomans Club of Carlsbad: $3,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSage Creek Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOnelegacy Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHeritage Palms Veterans Association Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCalifornia-Hawaii Elks Major Project Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sempra FoundationCA13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation

How much does James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation give?
James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Religion (16%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cole Valley Christian Schools Inc ($204k), Concordia University Irvine ($158k), Choc Foundation ($70k).
Does James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sempra Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation based?
James and Deborah Klein Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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